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combat
[ verb kuhm-bat, kom-bat, kuhm-; noun kom-bat, kuhm- ]
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
noun
- Military. active, armed fighting with enemy forces.
- a fight, struggle, or controversy, as between two persons, teams, or ideas.
combat
noun
- a fight, conflict, or struggle
- an action fought between two military forces
- ( as modifier )
a combat jacket
- single combata fight between two individuals; duel
- close combat or hand-to-hand combatfighting at close quarters
verb
- tr to fight or defy
- intr; often foll by with or against to struggle or strive (against); be in conflict (with)
to combat against disease
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Derived Forms
- comˈbatable, adjective
- comˈbater, noun
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Other Words From
- com·bata·ble adjective
- inter·combat noun
- pre·combat noun verb precombated precombating or (especially British) precombatted precombatting
- self-com·bating adjective
- uncom·bata·ble adjective
- uncom·bated adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of combat1
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Example Sentences
The Perfect Storm writer talks combat brotherhood and the threat posed by growing wealth inequality.
The State Innovation Exchange, a Democratic group, has been set up to combat corporate-led right-wing organizations.
From 2012 to 2013, 31 men left Aarhus bound for combat in Syria.
It was an attempt to combat a growing chill on free speech in Turkey while placing his newspaper at the center of the debate.
Excessive force to combat minor infractions of the law is the central issue today.
He looked strangely out of place in the dusty combat uniform.
The morning came and with it Shaffer, and with him five hundred and fifty men, eager for the combat.
Wright and his followers regard the opsonic index as an index of the power of the body to combat bacterial invasion.
But Strongarm lived in the age of combat when people fought animals at close range.
He demands from the king the gift of the first combat that shall offer, which is granted as a mere joke.
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